Stark Reviews: Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)

Stark says: Obliged.

Monte Hellmans Westerns are a strange breed. For one thing, its hard to talk about one without talking about the other. The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind were shot back to back, after the films financier reckoned that, if youre making one film, why the hell not make two? And while both are considered to be prime examples of revisionist, acid Westerns, theyre also very different films. As a Western, The Shooting, written by Carole Eastman, is female-led, abstract, u...